Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others.

Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.

If you're afraid to change something it is clearly poorly designed.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.